Welcome to Digital Storytelling

Presented By: Adam Bauchner and Danielle Rottenstein

Today’s Agenda:

1. Warm up
2. Writing for digital media
3. Finding media
4. Lunch
5. Putting it together
6. Cool down

What is Digital Storytelling?

• Multimedia compositions
• Personal narratives (or not)
• Globally shared or published
• Center for Digital Storytelling Stories page

What makes a good composition?

• Sensory: Imagery

What makes an effective writing process?

• Ideas first

• Planning

• Voice over: Scripting

• Evaluating student work

• Writing is rewriting

• Know your audience

What motivates students to do their best work?

• Achievement and motivation go hand and hand

• Their interest their choice

• Public display

• Anticipatory set

• Students working towards a common goal

• Working for a common goal

Why make Digital Stories?

• Our students are “Digital Natives”: A Vision of K-12 Students Today
• Kids’ voices, global: Viral Education
• Visual metaphor for the writing process: Web 2.0: The Machine is Us/ing Us
• Technology Learning Standards: ISTE National Education Technology Learning Standards
• Media Literacy: Project Look Sharp @ Ithaca College
  • 1. All media messages are “constructed.”
    2. Each medium has different characteristics, strengths, and a unique “language” of
    construction.
    3. Media messages are produced for particular purposes.
    4. All media messages contain embedded values and points of view.
    5. People use their individual skills, beliefs and experiences to construct their own
    meanings from media messages.
    6. Media and media messages can influence beliefs, attitudes, values, behaviors, and the
    democratic process.
• Equity

How do you do it?

In Classroom

1. Assignment & Ideas
2. Drafting & Revising & Editing
3. Storyboard & Script - Free Storyboards

On Computers:

1. Collect images:
   • Student photography
   • Photos from home
   • "Creative Commons" from Web: Flickr storm>>
2. Create sequence
3. Record voice
4. Publish

What can you do with it?

• Link to class website
• Share with buddy class
• Share with parents
• Collect comments
• Assessment: Rubrics for digital storytelling

Designing a Project

1. Begin with learning objectives
2. Teachers assesses computer skills
3. Inventory technology resources
4. Hardware resources
5. Training resources
6. Human resources
7. Financial resources
8. Plan the writing unit
9. Get help

Tips:

• Focus on Composition
• Keep the STORIES at the center
• Good writing skills are good Digital Storytelling skills
• Avoid “A Story with Pictures” and “Pictures with Captions”
• We tell a story through words & images
• David Jakes' Digital Storytelling Page

Flickr storm: Creative commons for public use
50 tools
www.Rockyou.com

VoiceThread:

• What is a VoiceThread?
• VoiceThread for Education Wiki
• Adam's First VoiceThread
• Andy Yale's VoiceThread Page

This workshop owes a great deal to technology educator David Jakes, whose Digital Storytelling Page is linked above. He has many other outstanding resources for technology integration linked to his home page,Jakes Online, including "15 Minutes" , a list of brief minute activities you can do to increase your own digital literacy.